Comments on: Creature Gets Clean http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/ Adam Preble's Weblog Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:06:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Adam http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1774 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:52:40 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1774 <p>Chris -- It's very, very fast now. Creature has a lot of posts that seem improbably good at bouncing the ball away from anything resembling a target, which can be frustrating. I'm also young at playing so I'm not sure how much of my occasional frustration is due to lack of skill, a game in need of tweaking, or just an off night. As you've probably experienced, cleaning the game completely changes how it plays, so that could be figuring into it as well. </p> <p>My favorite is still Whirlwind. (It was Creature, but then we got Whirlwind running...) Even though it's in much worse shape, it just has great flow, and the SDTM's don't hurt quite as badly with it set to 5 balls/hard (versus 3 balls/medium on Creature).</p> Chris — It’s very, very fast now. Creature has a lot of posts that seem improbably good at bouncing the ball away from anything resembling a target, which can be frustrating. I’m also young at playing so I’m not sure how much of my occasional frustration is due to lack of skill, a game in need of tweaking, or just an off night. As you’ve probably experienced, cleaning the game completely changes how it plays, so that could be figuring into it as well.

My favorite is still Whirlwind. (It was Creature, but then we got Whirlwind running…) Even though it’s in much worse shape, it just has great flow, and the SDTM’s don’t hurt quite as badly with it set to 5 balls/hard (versus 3 balls/medium on Creature).

]]> by: Chris http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1773 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:54:15 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1773 <p>Dang it, now I want a creech.</p> <p>How's the gameplay ? The one I played was at a truck stop and mucho broken with bad flippers.</p> Dang it, now I want a creech.

How’s the gameplay ? The one I played was at a truck stop and mucho broken with bad flippers.

]]> by: Theodore Gorpley http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1768 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:26:33 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1768 <p>That is TOTAL Kinkade, dude. I am feeling it.... FEELING IT! Are you selling these photos!?</p> That is TOTAL Kinkade, dude. I am feeling it…. FEELING IT! Are you selling these photos!?

]]> by: Jessica http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1766 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:48:05 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1766 <p>I personally don't see any similarities in Adam's photos and a Kinkade painting, other than both having a lot of color. You are right, however, that pinball machines use lights and colors (along with sounds and other attraction modes and tactics) to draw people to them in order to get played, and in turn, earning the arcades or owners of the machines a few quarters here and there. Still, I find it much more reasonable to pay 50 cents to play a game of pinball that has used its colors and lights to attract me to it, as opposed to paying hundreds of dollars for a print of a painting that I can't play at all. I appreciate art quite a bit, and I do think Kinkade is very talented at what he does, but I prefer to spend my money on things that occupy my time, and try to keep my costs on decorating to a minimum.</p> <p>I'm glad to hear you get enjoyment out of pinball, too, though, because they're a dying source of entertainment, and if more people don't keep playing them, they may stop producing new machines all together. That would be tragic!</p> I personally don’t see any similarities in Adam’s photos and a Kinkade painting, other than both having a lot of color. You are right, however, that pinball machines use lights and colors (along with sounds and other attraction modes and tactics) to draw people to them in order to get played, and in turn, earning the arcades or owners of the machines a few quarters here and there. Still, I find it much more reasonable to pay 50 cents to play a game of pinball that has used its colors and lights to attract me to it, as opposed to paying hundreds of dollars for a print of a painting that I can’t play at all. I appreciate art quite a bit, and I do think Kinkade is very talented at what he does, but I prefer to spend my money on things that occupy my time, and try to keep my costs on decorating to a minimum.

I’m glad to hear you get enjoyment out of pinball, too, though, because they’re a dying source of entertainment, and if more people don’t keep playing them, they may stop producing new machines all together. That would be tragic!

]]> by: Anonymous http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1764 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:22:35 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/08/creature-gets-clean/#comment-1764 <p>Like I Said before I don't read your site often, but it seems you have a thing for pinball machines. I love them! Ever thought that the bright colors and lights were purposely "designed to sell"?</p> <p>Intresting how your pinball photos resemble a Kinkade painting.</p> Like I Said before I don’t read your site often, but it seems you have a thing for pinball machines. I love them! Ever thought that the bright colors and lights were purposely “designed to sell”?

Intresting how your pinball photos resemble a Kinkade painting.

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